"Shakespeare never left a voice note. That’s the problem Sam Liang has spent 10 years solving."
Sam Liang, Co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai, started in 2016 when recording a meeting felt invasive and sharing notes felt strange. He had a PhD from Stanford, and a belief that most people thought was wrong: voice would become the primary interface for business intelligence.
He built his own speech recognition from scratch instead of using third-party APIs. He watched competitors come and go.
Today, Otter.ai has 35 million users and $100M ARR. Here’s what he got right about voice AI before anyone else did and why he thinks 95% of the world is still just getting started.
00:00 Intro
01:24 The Bet Nobody Believed In
03:54 Why He Refused to Use Third-Party APIs
06:01 The Next Interface Isn’t a Screen
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